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IBM Engineering - Foundation/Common Services

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Automatically reconnect to database on initialization

When IBM ELM first starts, it only tries to connect to the database server once. If IBM ELM cannot connect, then IBM ELM enters a fault state and does not try again to reconnect - even if the Database Server comes online again. This is an issue as...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Foundation/Common Services / Installation 0 Future consideration

Enable history for the repository permissions and Client Access Licenses.

we are facing multiple access related issues, where it would helpful to understand the removal of repository permissions and Client Access Licenses history for a particular user.
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Foundation/Common Services / Licensing 0 Future consideration

Add push notification system to ELM to warn users with a specific message

When a maintenance operation is planned, we need to communicate to users about the unavailability of the servers. Today, we are sending mails. However, we cannot know if the users have read the message and are aware about the date of unavailabilit...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Foundation/Common Services 1 Not under consideration

Enable concurrent edits on an EWM Dashboard

On our projects, multiple stakeholders are allowed to make modifications to project dashboards. these can be as simple as re-arranging widgets. Or it can be to add complex widgets with involved configuration. Today, if two people each are editing ...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Foundation/Common Services / Usability 3 Not under consideration

Process templates have no any migration routine on upgrade or importing from previous releases

We have migration routing through extension points to manage permission and other process template settings during a server upgrade. But this is only for project areas, there is nothing similar for process templates when server is being migrated. ...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Foundation/Common Services / Performance 1 Not under consideration

Export/Import process templates on different versions does not preserve permission structure for user roles.

There is a related workitem from foundation as the manage of process template source is on their side: 494200: Process templates have no any migration routine on upgrade or importing from previous releases. Once they complete this enhancement we m...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Foundation/Common Services / Performance 1 Not under consideration

EWM (and all ELM related tools) Kerberos feature to work with Microsoft Windows Defender Credential Guard enabled

We need to have the feature to use Kerberos authentication when users can't use username/password to authenticate to EWM or other ELM tools when Windows Credential Guard is enabled. We have a security mandate (HSPD12) at our organization that requ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Foundation/Common Services / Usability 1 Future consideration

The ELM uses "." in their headers which most modern reverse proxies drop by default.

For example, the Cloudflare proxy may remove HTTP request headers with names considered invalid according to NGINX, such as header names containing a . (dot) character as the ELM uses.And the new proxy doesn't allow setting the flag ignore_invalid...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Foundation/Common Services / Administration 0 Future consideration

Rational Token License Server Reporting

We have a number of clients using the licence server and we need to be able to split out and report upon the license usage per client that we have connected to the license server at any one time. We believe this could be achieved by adding the hos...
about 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Foundation/Common Services / Administration 6 Future consideration

Feature to send invitation e-mail in LPA(Lifecycle project administration)

LPA(Lifecycle project administration) does not have a feature to send invitation e-mails when adding members to project areas.In order to send invitation e-mails, administrator have to navigate each project area and send e-mails.As administrator n...
over 6 years ago in IBM Engineering - Foundation/Common Services / Usability 2 Future consideration